Vulnerability Protection Agent

A way to uninstall Vulnerability Protection Agent from your system

Vulnerability Protection Agent is a Windows program. Read more about how to remove it from your PC. The Windows release was developed by Trend Micro. You can read more on Trend Micro or check for application updates here. More info about the program Vulnerability Protection Agent can be found at Trend Micro. Vulnerability Protection Agent is normally set up in the C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent folder, however this location may differ a lot depending on the user's decision when installing the program. You can uninstall Vulnerability Protection Agent by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line MsiExec.exe /X{333E740D-AAD6-42D5-98C0-7ADCE65AA1F4}. Note that you might get a notification for admin rights. The application's main executable file has a size of 301.69 KB (308928 bytes) on disk and is titled dsa.exe.

Vulnerability Protection Agent contains of the executables below. They take 525.26 KB (537864 bytes) on disk.

• dsa.exe (301.69 KB)
• dsc.exe (223.57 KB)

The current page applies to Vulnerability Protection Agent version 9.6.7690 only. For more Vulnerability Protection Agent versions please click below:

• 9.6.8065
• 9.6.7256
• 9.6.8904
• 9.6.1308
• 9.6.7599
• 9.6.8587
• 9.6.9141
• 9.6.8288
• 9.6.6400

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After the uninstall process, the application leaves leftovers on the PC. Part_A few of these are shown below.

Directories found on disk:

• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent

Generally, the following files remain on disk:

• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\cURL.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa.com
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa.exe
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_control.cmd
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_core.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_core\ds_agent.dse
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_core\dsa.dse
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_core\dsa_9up.dse
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_core\dsa_control.dse
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_core\dsa_query.dse
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_core\restart.dse
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_core\sendCommand.dse
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_core\uninstall.dse
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\dsa_query.cmd
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\internal_build_number.txt
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\lfp.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\lfs.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\libcurl.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\libeay32.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\libexpat.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\Licenses\Deep_Security_3P_licenses.txt
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\lnotify.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\lsqlite3.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\lua5.2.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\lxp.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\sendCommand.cmd
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\slb3.0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\sqlite3.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\ssleay32.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\wxmsw294u_vc_dsa.dll
• C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\wxsqlite.dll

Generally the following registry data will not be cleaned:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{333E740D-AAD6-42D5-98C0-7ADCE65AA1F4}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\TrendMicro\Vulnerability Protection Agent

Open regedit.exe in order to remove the following registry values:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability Protection Agent\
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\WINDOWS\Installer\{333E740D-AAD6-42D5-98C0-7ADCE65AA1F4}\
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ds_agent\ImagePath

How to delete Vulnerability Protection Agent from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Vulnerability Protection Agent is a program marketed by Trend Micro. Some users choose to uninstall this application. This can be troublesome because removing this manually takes some advanced knowledge related to Windows internal functioning. One of the best EASY practice to uninstall Vulnerability Protection Agent is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your Windows PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very efficient uninstaller and general utility to clean your Windows PC.

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• go to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good program.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs button


5. All the applications installed on the computer will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find Vulnerability Protection Agent or simply activate the Search feature and type in "Vulnerability Protection Agent". The Vulnerability Protection Agent app will be found very quickly. Notice that after you select Vulnerability Protection Agent in the list of applications, some information about the program is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other people have about Vulnerability Protection Agent, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information about the application you wish to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Vulnerability Protection Agent:

• The web site of the program is: Trend Micro
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{333E740D-AAD6-42D5-98C0-7ADCE65AA1F4}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will come up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall Vulnerability Protection Agent.


8. After uninstalling Vulnerability Protection Agent, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of Vulnerability Protection Agent which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing Vulnerability Protection Agent using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry items, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows PC will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to remove Vulnerability Protection Agent by Trend Micro from your computer, nor are we saying that Vulnerability Protection Agent by Trend Micro is not a good software application. This text only contains detailed info on how to remove Vulnerability Protection Agent in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.